It’s big news in India. A former Miss World engaged to be married to (and soon to be living with) one of India’s biggest name actors. Via the International Herald Tribune.
Last autumn, as rumors of their relationship emerged, one television critic put out a prescient plea to the couple, begging them not to go ahead with the marriage, for fear of what the announcement of an engagement would do to normal news coverage. These fears were more than realized. For days now, every detail of the stars’ daily routine has pushed other events — like soaring rates of malnutrition, violent rural unrest, the murder of dozens of slum children — to the back of the news schedule.
